Me Quotes
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I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.
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The people in my district don't call me 'congressman' - doesn't matter how old they are, they call me 'Jack.' They see me at the grocery store, at soccer games.
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When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me.
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Jim Norton and Harland Williams always make me laugh.
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I don't think anyone could play me. It would have to be me.
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At 21, Real Madrid or Barcelona would have been more difficult for me. If I play well enough at Chelsea, I could win my place in the starting team, and my priority is to play.
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I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
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Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.
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For me, just being published feels like success.
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These days, I try to eat for my blood type when I'm not eating for the fat kid inside me.
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
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When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing with relief, because the truth has been spoken, and political correctness has not strangled this particular gigastar.
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I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.
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Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'
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My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
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I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'
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When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
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I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
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There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.
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I spend time doing cardio because it makes me feel good.
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A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.'
